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ajantis_art · Post by **ajantis_art** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:47 am

Yea nice 1 awesome article, great to hear about loef and mala playing computer games as teens hah ha. Makes you proper proud to be part of the scene ay.

ozols man · Post by **ozols man** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:12 pm

ah shit, my itunes is fucking up and that, can someone paste me the article, pretty please??

cheers

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:07 pm

great article martin!

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:44 pm

Like the article, inspirational stuff.

One thing- what do you mean by ''post-Timbaland'' for ''Mud''?

blackdown · Post by **blackdown** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:14 pm

hey everyone, thanks for all the feedback. I spent a very long time on this and given how good Digital Mystikz and Loefah are, it was important to me to do them justice.

yes the pdf seems to have a line missing running over the join of p36-38.

It should read from the Loefah quote:

“I felt something in Forward>> that night that I hadn’t felt in years. It just felt like the [seminal Metalheadz jungle club] Blue Note again.”

They’d attended Forward>>, held in east London’s Plastic People, to hear Hatcha, the DJ credited with leading dubstep from a UK garage offshoot into a distinct genre.

As for the polyrythm reference, before "Bury the Bwoy" i dont think i'd ever heard kicks used in those places in dubstep.

As for the post-timbaland comment, it's a reference to the harsh, non-pitch shifted, stiff hats in Mud that sound like they come straight out of late 90s Timbaland (for reference, to me, jungle used looser, rolling breaks, garage's swing came from shifting lighter hats).

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:45 pm

That's true actually- I wish I could think about and understand music in that way sometimes.

RubiconMan · Post by **RubiconMan** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:59 pm

Corpsey wrote:That's true actually- I wish I could think about and understand music in that way sometimes.

certain minds ey.
anyway blackdown, good read big up!

slow riot · Post by **slow riot** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:06 pm

Blackdown wrote: As for the polyrythm reference, before "Bury the Bwoy" i dont think i'd ever heard kicks used in those places in dubstep.

yeah I know what exactly you're saying, despite many other tracks having polyrhythmic elements, Bury was novel in it's application - with magical results. But hey, I'm just arguing over semantics, the rest of the article was superb, and some diamond words from the Mala and Loefah.

respect.

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:17 pm

wow, the download limit on the itunes free pdf is already rinsed. I'd love to read this, anyone feel like re-upping? pretty please? lol

4linehaiku · Post by **4linehaiku** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:26 pm

Rinsed out my yousendit account as well! It won't let me upload anything else. When did YSI start being so rubbish?
Sendspace coming.

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:29 pm

big up! cheers for the effort man

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:45 pm

this article is pretty superb, excellent balance between accessibility and depth, also very interesting and personal

i cant believe mala is deaf in one ear! ludicrous

4linehaiku · Post by **4linehaiku** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:50 pm

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dm9r5z
Edit: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7VFLLTKG

Big up Blackdown on this, really great bit of writing.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:58 pm

elgato wrote:
i cant believe mala is deaf in one ear! ludicrous

Beethoven, Mala... that's it- I'm going to the toolshed to stab myself in the ear with a chisel

glacial · Post by **glacial** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:06 pm

excellent read

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:22 pm

wicked article, thanks for sortin the link 4linehaiku!

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:00 pm

Very good article, big up yourself 4linehaiku. Blackdown is like the poet laureate of dubstep, except he's not a poet.

prisoner · Post by **prisoner** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:22 pm

the last paragraph is really fantastically written.

big up blackdown.

farrah · Post by **farrah** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:00 pm

good shizzle - nice photography too

Corpsey wrote:
elgato wrote:
i cant believe mala is deaf in one ear! ludicrous
Beethoven, Mala... that's it- I'm going to the toolshed to stab myself in the ear with a chisel

lol

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:02 am

well done martin!

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